“The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook”
“Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.”
“And now we celebrate, in victory bound, The feast of feasts:Friend Zarathustra came, the guest of guests!Now laughs the world, the ancient curtain's torn,And light and darkness wedded are as one...”
“It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.”
“please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.”
“(It was also helpful that the hotel’s owner tended to turn a blind eye to room sharing. A room filled with too many guests was better than one with no guests at all.)”